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The Infinite Game:
As hard as it may be to recognize a player as one of our Worthy Rivals, especially if we find them disagreeable, to do so is the best way to become better players ourselves.
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The Infinite Game:
Fast-growing companies with strong product, marketing and balance sheets… often neglect to give time and attention to leadership training or to actively nurturing their culture.
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The Infinite Game:
Like in business, the emergence of new players necessarily changes the way the game must be played.
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The Infinite Game:
What got us here won’t get us there, and knowing who our Worthy Rivals are is the best way to help us improve and adapt before it’s too late.
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The Infinite Game:
Existential Flexibility is the capacity to initiate an extreme disruption to a business model or strategic course in order to more effectively advance a Just Cause.
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The Infinite Game:
Many start-ups are fueled more by an entrepreneur’s passion for a vision than by resources they have to advance it.
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The Infinite Game:
An infinite-minded leader with a Just Cause looks outside their industry and miles beyond the horizon – to a place that requires imagination to use.
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The Infinite Game:
Bankruptcy is so often an act of suicide. When we look back at the decisions that put once successful companies on a path to bankruptcy, we discover an uncomfortably high number of leaders who were obsessed with the finite game.
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The Infinite Game:
At some point, every single organization will need to make a Flex.
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The Infinite Game:
The pressure we all face today to maintain a finite mindset is overwhelming.
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